TO MEN AS SUCCESSIVELY MADE IN THE PATRIARCHAL, JEWISH, AND CHRISTIAN DISPENSATIONS AND IN THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM BY SAMUEL J. ANDREWS 99.66 THE LIFE OF our lord UPON EARTH," CHRISTIANITY SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS COPYRIGHT, 1885, BY S. J. ANDREWS. COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY SAMUEL J. ANDREWS. The Knickerbocker Press, New York DX30 A56 1901 143033 PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION. IN the present revision few changes have been made. At first thought it may seem that the recent excavations in Babylonia and Egypt, which have carried our knowledge of the history of those regions much farther backsome say to 7000 years B.C.-must be of great importance in our inquiries. But this chronological enlargement gives no new light as to the origin of the earth and man, and his earliest history. If it confirms the belief that the statements in Genesis were based on the Babylonian traditions, it is still to be explained how these traditions. originated, and when and how they assumed the shape in which we now find them, and what authority belongs to them. It is no part of the purpose of this book to discuss questions which we have not the knowledge to settle, and which for their adequate treatment demand special treatises. We do not inquire how the Bible became what it is, but assume that it is a true outline of God's actings in human history, without going into examination of details. But some remarks may be made here in regard to the discussion of the Higher Criticism, printed in the Appendix. All that is there attempted is to state its leading principles and the conclusions to which they lead, as presented by its chief representatives. Many points of detail, which have been so learnedly and laboriously examined, are comparatively of small importance; and with regard to many of those more important, the last word has not yet been said. The historical question which meets us first of all, and is of supreme importance, is to know whether the history of the Hebrews is that of |